The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-12
A Study of the Public Manners Of Girls,
with an Accurate Report Thereof.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Clevelands Plan for Cor
recting Mans Reprehensible Habit of
Expectorating in Public Places.
How the Chorus Girls Conducted Them
selves at q Monument Dedication,
With Mention of the Male Singers and the
People in the Grand Stand--Million's I'M
prudence and What lie Lost Thereby.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journa.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK, June 11-All the week and in
dustriously, too have been studying the pub
lie manners of girls It was not on cheap
promiscuous excursion, but on a private yacht,
which conveyed party of selected swels
to a regatta. that I had one opportunity
to study enamored pair. If their names were
here written down. that of the fellow would be
recognized from his fathers wealthy promi-
nence, and the maiden's would be synonymous
with social altitude. They calmly sat for hours
in blissful Inconsistencies of the fact that the
cabin full of passengers were laughing at them.
She lay back in a sofa chair in ianguorous atti-
tude. with her head pillowed on some shawls,
whils he leaned worshipfully over from another
chair, and made pretense Of Swapping at her
chin. She caught his ear. at one of these dives
toward her, and then he had to hold his head
down close enough 80 that she could whisper in
it without lifting her head. Then she curled his
mustache, stroked his chin, patted his cheek,
tapped his teeth and poked her finger into his
mouth This last performance gave them an
other idea, and she would see how far into his
mouth she could poke her finger and then draw
it out again before he could bite it.
This amused them for long time.
But the ear business seem to strike
time. and during the journey up and back each
one OF those ears was murmured into many
times. The dust that gathered in them seemed
to have much more attraction for her eyes than
tho landscapes, and as for him. why, he would
have let her pull out a tooth. and sat through it
all with the same ecstatic expression that rested
on his countenance all that day. Nothing inter
rupted their attention from each other. If the
ste had I hay
have been seen flying through the air on the
smoke stack undisturbed.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is really to be-
come teacher in one of the fashionable schools
for girls, and it will become her duty to take
her with the rest of the faculty in lecturing
on polteness for bellies. I don't know but she
will say some things about mems behavior too,
Judging by what she said TO an acquaintance of
mine while here
1.-THE most unpleasant feature of the elevated
railroad" she said, after ride on it. lis the
proneness to expectoration that overtakes the
male passengers the stairways A journey
up or down the covered passages leading to the
streets from the stations is fraught with as much
danger as going around the horn The compa-
MES should put monitor on the landings to
muzzle the mon who 60 outrage decency."
This is the season of big sashes. Half the
ladies' gowns lave long ends of broad ribbon
depending from their rears In climbing stairs,
a woman catches up her skirt behind but nine
times out OF ten the sash escapes. and goes
sweeping the steps behind her. This is an acci-
dent to shuddsr at 1t is indelicare subject
to write about, but we are forced to consider it
every time we take or leave a train. Miss Cleve
land asked, In a jocular way, how she
A. ~ ~ -
II think women could disgust men with the
practice of eternal expectoration il they all went
in for 1t themselves" she replied half seriously
Let wpnen nerve themselves, and band
together for one week OF this business. Chew
some saliva provoking substance and go abroad
to spit about the streets and public places. By
night the papers swould be full of
anathemas, and the ofense of the women
would be- the one subject of conversation. Pos
sbly a reform by force of example would ensue.
Women do keep q much higher average of
seemliness in public places than men. Look
down the aisle of theater and see the old boots
and wrinkled socks waving in the air. They are
all masculine. There tho men sit dandling leg
as if it was baby with the stomach ache. saw
q man the other night with foot (made on the
now principle of twenty-oue inches make one
FOOT and n cane as big as his leg. The foot
beating the air like the dasher of churn, and
tho cane was striking the boot at every revolu-
ton-thnt is, every time the old foot came
round. A prima donna was singing, and this
lovely rythmic beat annoyed every one in his
neiGhborhood I sat next a man who had the
jumps that same night. He would convulse
himself and give a snort, dig his knees into the
back Of the seat in front of him. trot his legs,
stretch them out till the hats of his neighbors
were kicked into the orchestra and then
start into tie back Of that seat in front again.
The occupant looked daggers, and every time
heard the seat crack got nervous myself. Be-
tween acts he went out, and while he was gone
fixed things for him. Every available pin that
put me together took out and darned into the
back of that seat points I'D. and an inch of the
point bent over. St Vitus came back and began
the programme. He danced his leg in the aisle,
then slouched in his seat SO that his knees stuck
up nearly as high as the back of the heavily pro
tected scat. He dug them in for minute; when
they began slipping down he struck a hat-pin.
Before he could pull up he was impaled on big
safety pin. That was reinforced by several sim
ple common. every day pins-all pointed, how
ever. We had no more climbing. and it is be-
lieved he said his prayers every way but on his
knees that night.
Chorus girls ard actresses who have not yet
arrived at the dignity Of speaking part were
present in abundance at the ceremonies attend
ing the dedication of the Actors Fund monu
ment in Evergreen Cemetery. There were COM
parativeiy few we'll known actresses there. but
for the thousands of curious people who stood
about and pushed and crowded for froutrow
position, the minor artistes were as satisfactory
as if their fame had filled two continents For
the chorus girl in holiday array is as strikings
figure as any tragedienne that ever played She
bears the stamp of the stage in every feature.
ornament and motion. And this apparently
without trying to appear conspicuous. The
spectators, therefore, went away under the I'M
preston that they had seen a vast gathering OF
popular successful and accomplished women;
for that is the estimation IN which actresses are
usually held in spite of the social taboo against
which they have to strive There were about
sixty of these distinguished women penned
for Eha